"And, beauteous Bride, we do confess _you_ are wise _On drawing_ forth _those_ bashful jealousies [doling In love's name, do so; and a price Set on yourself by being nice. But yet take heed What now you seem be not the same indeed, And turn Apostat_a_: Love will Part of the way be met, or sit stone still; On them, and though _y'are slow In going_ yet, howsoever go. 10. "_How long, soft Bride, shall your dear C[lipseby] make Love to your welcome with the mystic cake, How long, oh pardon, shall the house And the smooth Handmaids pay their vows With oil and wine For your approach, yet see their Altars pine? How long shall the page to please You stand for to surrender up the keys Of the glad house? Come, come, Or Lar will freeze to death at home._ 11. "_Welcome at last unto the Threshold, Time Throned in a saffron evening, seems to chime All in, kiss and so enter. If A prayer must be said, be brief, The easy Gods For such neglect have only myrtle rods To stroke, not strike; fear you Not more, mild Nymph, than they would have you do; But dread that you do more offend In that you do begin than end._ 12 [7]. "And now y'are entered, see the coddled cook Runs from his Torrid Zone to pry and look And bless his dainty mistress; see _How_ th' aged point out: 'This is she Who now must sway _Us_ (_and God_ shield her) with her yea and nay,' And the smirk Butler thinks it Sin in _his_ nap'ry not t' express his wit; Each striving to devise Some gin wherewith to catch _her_ eyes. 13. "_What though your laden Altar now has won The credit from the table of the Sun For earth and sea; this cost On you is altogether lost Because you feed Not on the flesh of beasts, but on the seed Of contemplation: your, Your eyes are they, wherewith you draw the pure Elixir to the mind Which sees the body fed, yet pined._ 14 [14]. "If _you must needs_ for ceremonie's sake Bless a sack posset, Luck go with _you_, take The night charm quickly; you have spells And magic for to end, and Hells To pass, but such And of such torture as no _God_ would grutch To live therein for ever: fry, _Aye_ and consume, and grow again to die, And live, and in that case Love the _damnation_ of _that_ place. [the 15 [8].